Miami finalizing deal for home-and-home series with Texas A&M

A Texas A&M player's helmet sits near the 50 yard line on Kyle Field before the start of an NCAA college football game against Ole Miss Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, in College Station, Texas. The Hurricanes are reportedly close to finalizing a deal that would give them a home-and-home series against A&M in 2022 and 2023. (AP Photo, Sam Craft)

The Miami Hurricanes have already secured two high-profile matchups against SEC opponents, and it seems they're ready to add another in the coming years.

Miami is close to finalizing a deal with Texas A&M for a home-and-home series with the Aggies in 2022 and 2023, a source confirmed to the Sun Sentinel on Wednesday. The Miami Herald was first to report the impending deal late Tuesday.

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The Hurricanes are already scheduled to open the 2018 season at Cowboys Stadium against LSU and will open the 2019 season against Florida in Orlando. Among the other non-conference games the Hurricanes have coming up include a matchup against Notre Dame at Hard Rock Stadium next year and a home-and-home series with Michigan State in 2020 and 2021.

Miami is also scheduled to renew its football rivalry with cross-town foe FIU in 2018 and 2019, a series that just got a bit more interesting with FIU announcing the hiring of former Miami coach Butch Davis on Tuesday afternoon.

Davis interviewed and openly lobbied for the Hurricanes job which became vacant last fall when the school fired Al Golden. Miami, instead, hired Mark Richt, who as the former coach at Georgia, has more than a decade's worth of experience facing the kind of SEC programs that now appear on Miami's future schedules.

The Hurricanes also have non-conference games set up at Arkansas State and against Toledo next season, while Rutgers is scheduled to visit Miami in 2019.